Brihat Samhita
किं वातः परं अन्यत् शास्त्रज्यायो अस्ति यद्विदित्वाएव । प्रध्वंसिन्यपि काले त्रिकालदर्शी कलौ भवति ॥ २१-०४ ॥
What science can possibly excel, in interest, the science relating to the prediction of rain, by a thorough study of which one though ignorant in other matters passes for a great astrologer in this Iron Age.
english translation
kiM vAtaH paraM anyat zAstrajyAyo asti yadviditvAeva । pradhvaMsinyapi kAle trikAladarzI kalau bhavati ॥ 21-04 ॥
hk transliteration by Sanscript